23 Inches!
That's the size of Victoria Beckham's waist... about the same as the circumference of a football
Daily Mail
There are fears for the health of Victoria Beckham after it emerged that she has slimmed her waist measurement to just 23 inches. Incredibly, the tiny measurement gives her the same waist size as a seven-year-old - the age of her son Brooklyn. The 32-year-old former Spice Girl is so slim that she now has to have her clothes specially altered to stop them from swamping her tiny frame.
Fashion designer David Britton has revealed that he now commissions jeans for his A-list clients in a one-off 23-inch waist. His company's previous smallest size, a 24, can apparently prove too big. A tiny size 4-a "0" in America where she does much of her retail shopping – Mrs Beckham's waist is 11 inches smaller than that of the average British woman.
To put that in perspective, her waist measures about the same size as an old fashioned vinyl single or a football. Last night Deanne Jade, founder of the National Centre for Eating Disorders in Surrey, said: "When people like Victoria lose so much weight the problem becomes that they don't necessarily want to be pretty or beautiful – they just want to be talked about and the attention that comes with being thin.'
"It is basic human psychology - the more she is photographed and lauded, the more attention she gets and craves. But often people who are very thin have issues generally – low self-esteem and real fragility. Very few women can get to that weight without doing something very drastic although no-one knows quite how she manages to control her hunger in the way that she does. As much as she may claim to eat like a horse and have an incredibly fast metabolism, I would argue that she is defying all laws of biology and physiology."
Clemmie Moodie, Daily Mail
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